Quote from: saurabh on December 30, 2017, 05:11:27 AM

Quote from: btcblockchain on December 29, 2017, 01:37:25 PM

NEW DELHI: India warned Friday against investing in cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, likening them to Ponzi schemes, as it became the latest country to urge caution.Despite a boom in trade that has seen prices soar, cryptocurrencies dont have intrinsic value and are not backed by any kind of assets, the Indian finance ministry said in a statement. There is a real and heightened risk of investment bubble of the type seen in Ponzi schemes which can result in sudden and prolonged crash, it said.Bitcoin prices plunged by almost 40 percent from its record high of $19,500 (SR73,125) this month as investors cashed out following the wildly volatile currencys stratospheric rise.Analysts and governments have repeatedly warned about a bubble that could burst at any moment as investors, many inexperienced, piled into the currency.Indias government said consumers needed to be extremely cautious as to avoid getting trapped in such Ponzi schemes..

Its warning came a day after South Korea, a hotbed for cryptocurrency trading, said it would ban anonymous trading of virtual currencies.On Tuesday Israel announced a move to ban trading in cryptocurrency-based companies on the Tel Aviv market until it can regulate transactions involving digital coins.The vice president of the European Central Bank has also expressed concern about the relentless rise in the value of bitcoin.US Federal Reserve boss Janet Yellen has said bitcoin is not money and called on banks to be certain their digital currency transactions adhere to anti-money laundering statutes..

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Indian Government is worst they are scared now that if people use crypto then they will not have any control all politicians are corrupt including our PM on top of that banks do not have any back up if funds are taken out from banks the so called Indian economy will fall.

I think the govt. itself is in kind of a dubious situation. They can't obviously directly ban bitcoin because of it such a widespread adoption around the country. Nor they can expressly accept it as it will lead to money laundering at a very large scale. Even making a law regarding it is too difficult so they are trying to create FUD in minds of people. This FUD becomes even more solid when the price of BTC falls marginally bt 30% a day. So they are correct in their approach won't blame them for doing so.